ppap said:
You don't have the nylon adhesive type of u-joint. If you tried this method on it, you'd lose your hearing and damage the ears on the driveshaft.
This is TRUE
I wish I had researched U-Joints before just jumping on them thinkin....ahhhh a few C-Clips and I will be done.
Nylon Injected will not come out with a hammer and socket...if they do YOUR VERY lucky.
I bent my 50yr old vise.
I tried a good size arbor press at my work.
I drilled the nylon nipples hang out of the u-joint and repeated the last step.
I took it up to the machine shop at my work and tried the 10k lb press HANGING on it.
Then a bell rang off in my head.
MELT THE EFFIN NYLON
One of the machine shop guys had mapp gas. I heated them up...the nylon oozes out of the holes like the black worm fireworks you light when I was a kid.
Back on the 10k press....LIKE BUTTA....slide right out now!
Cool down the drive shaft with come H20 and reinstalled the new ones.
The other thing that pissed me off was breaking the ujoint free from the rear end....I ended up using a pry bar then it broke free and jambed my elbow into a bolt under the truck, cutting it, then having the shaft wack me in the head :haha:
After that...I knew the rest of the night was going to be hell.